Wednesday, 19 January 2011

  • January Features Double Tourney Guarantees

    If you are a fan of tournaments carrying huge prize pools, you will enjoy the Full Tilt Poker download this month because they have double guarantees from January 24th to January 30th. That’s right – every tournament with a guarantee will have at least double the usual guaranteed prize pool, which means that your chance to score huge will be significantly larger. If you have always dreamed of that 5-figure cash on the Full Tilt Poker download, now is the time to do it!

    To ensure that these increased guarantees get met, the Full Tilt Poker download has introduced Multi Entry Tourneys. These MTTs give you the ability to register for the same tournament multiple times at once. In other words you could potentially multi-table a single tournament under a solitary username!

    If you decide to download Full Tilt Poker to participate in these interesting Multi Entry Tournaments, you should be wary of some key rules. The maximum number of times you can enter a single tournament is six, and it is possible to re-enter an event only if registration is still open. To ensure fairness, the software will ensure that you cannot be seated with another one of your entries at the same table. If the number of entries you have ever exceeds the number of tables remaining, a couple of your stacks will merge to create one big stack. This really is new territory for online poker rooms!

    These incredible changes mean that the Sunday of that week is going to be like no other. The Double Deuce usually has a $200k guarantee, but on January 30th it will have an incredible $400k prize pool. If you are experienced with download free poker sites and you want to play much higher, give the $216 $750k a shot as its guarantee will increase to an impressive $1.5 million!

Saturday, 11 December 2010

  • Obtain Twice the Points During Full Tilt Poker's SH Happy Hour

    Lately the Full Tilt Poker download has been host to a large variety of chances to earn extra Full Tilt Points, and the most recent of the bunch is dubbed “Short Handed Happy Hour”. Long time users of Full Tilt will have already earned double Points on normal Happy Hour tables, but usually Happy Hour is reserved for non-peak times in traffic. This latest promo gives everyone the chance to earn double the Points at all times of the day.

    The Full Tilt Poker download is giving twice as many Full Tilt Points in short handed cash games from the start of December to the end of January. You might be surprised to learn that you can still play a short handed game on a Full Ring table. 9-handed tables are deemed short handed when less than six players are being dealt cards. 6-handed tables are short handed when they are 3-way or heads-up. It is sometimes fun to speculate what might happen as a result of certain promotions. There is a decent chance that the 9-max games could initially have short handed experts trying to receive twice as many Points on their Full Tilt Poker download. Maybe I will be wrong and 9-max veterans will just try the short handed games themselves. The point is, though, that this is a great way for the site to encourage new cash games during the holiday season.

    Like regular Happy Hour tables, the short handed tables are given yellow smiley face symbols. Those new to online poker rooms should enjoy the fact that Full Tilt Poker made these Short Handed tables pleasantly easy to find.

    The Full Tilt Store is jam packed with great items to purchase with your bonus Points. If you have just started your bankroll on money poker sites, you should think about getting a Full Tilt Security Key for 5k Points. This will ensure that your account cannot be compromised at any time. Get this out of the way first, and then you can start saving for a new jacket, iPod, or computer.

    More Full Tilt Points means more money (or other things) for you, making this a great time to be a cash game player. With MiniFTOPS, Short Handed Happy Hour, and the other ongoing promotions, you can bet that there will be many people that download Full Tilt Poker before the year is over.

Saturday, 06 November 2010

  • The Chris Ferguson Challenge

    Earlier this year I wrote about Chris Ferguson, a well known poker professional that spends a lot of time on a Full Tilt Poker download. That entry skimmed upon the fact that he once went from a $0 bankroll to a $10k bankroll. I find this story very interesting because it is common to hear someone complain that they cannot “afford” to gamble. The Chris Ferguson Challenge proves that it is possible to earn thousands of dollars on their Full Tilt Poker download by working hard and following some key rules.

    The goal of the Chris Ferguson Challenge was simple: open an account on the Full Tilt Poker download, start with an empty account, and one day end up with a $10k bankroll. Ferguson decided that he would donate the entire $10k to the Save the Children Foundation when it was said and done.

    Good players know that in order to succeed on the top Texas Holdem sites, they must manage their bankrolls properly. With this in mind, Ferguson had a few rules for his challenge:

    1) Download Full Tilt Poker and play freerolls until a real money bankroll is established.
    2) Never enter a Sit & Go for more than five percent of the total bankroll. The one exception is for $2.50 buy-ins.
    3) Never enter a multi-table tourney for over 2% of the total bankroll. The one exception is for $1 buy-ins.

    This challenge ended up taking a long time because cashing in freerolls on money poker sites usually means beating massive fields. The fact that it took Ferguson over seven months to keep a $6.50 bankroll should demonstrate this point quite clearly! Ferguson fought through this bad variance like a pro, of course. He finally boosted the bankroll in a significant way with a runner-up finish in a 683 field. It was a $1 tourney and he won $104.

    This relatively large increase for the bankroll did not mean the end was close by, however. It is tough to turn a quick profit, even on the best US poker sites. It took him an additional nine months before he finally had $10,000 and brought the challenge to an end.

    The key lesson to take away from the Chris Ferguson Challenge is that it is highly unlikely to succeed at such a challenge while lacking bankroll management skills. For tips on this, I strongly suggest you consult an applicable poker video. If you have been in the game for a while, you probably know that protecting your bankroll is essential for long term success.

Tuesday, 05 October 2010

  • Be an Exclusive Black Card Member

    The Full Tilt Poker download introduced the Black Card as a special thanks to players that put in many hours of poker. It is basically a variety of perks offered to those that play a high volume of hands every month. These perks include an exclusive store, personalized customer service, and double the Full Tilt Points. Players actually receive a physical Black Card to show the world they are part of this exclusive club.
     
    Access to this exclusive club requires players to put in consistent hours of poker on their Full Tilt Poker download. Players must average 500 Full Tilt Points per day over the last 99 days plus the current day. In other words, players have 100 days to earn 50,000 Full Tilt Points. This is no easy task, especially for microstakes players. Unlike the highest VIP status on PokerStars, though, the Full Tilt Poker download does not make their players wait a year to receive their rewards.

    The most important store item for players on money poker sites is usually cash bonuses. The Black Card store has bonuses between $50 and $2,000 for sale, and each bonus has a different Full Tilt Point price tag. However, cash is not immediately deposited into a player’s real-money account. Players are required to clear this bonus; for every Full Tilt Point earned, $0.04 of the bonus is cleared. Those that have earned bonuses using a PokerStars bonus code will know exactly what to do. Players will have a total of 90 days to clear the bonus.

    Let’s now take a look at the other Black Card benefits. Double Full Tilt Points are available at all tables, including Happy Hour tables. You won’t want to waste time on any of the other top Texas Hold'em sites when you’re earning so many Points at the Full Tilt tables. Regarding exclusive customer support, each Black Card member will receive both a welcome email and personalized physical Black Card sent to their home address. Be sure to hang on to your Black Card because it has the email address of your personal customer support rep. I haven’t heard of any of the other US friendly poker sites giving their players dedicated support members.

    PokerStars download players have Supernova, Full Tilt download players have the Black Card. The best feature of the Black Card status is that you can earn it in a matter of 3 months. Supernova status takes an entire year to earn! It’s still a new promo, though, so we’ll see how it all pans out in the end.

Tuesday, 07 September 2010

  • MiniFTOPS XVII

    If you are eager to play some major tournaments with very significant first place money but you just don’t have the bankroll necessary, you will be happy to hear that MiniFTOPS has arrived. Once you get a Full Tilt Poker download, this is an opportunity to play some of the 34 events and win part of $6 million in prize pools.

    Players that already play consistently on their Full Tilt Poker download already know that FTOPS XVII just finished. MiniFTOPS XVII will feature the same events but at 10% of the buy-ins. Things will kick off tomorrow night with the $20+$2 No Limit Holdem tournament. This event has an impressive $200k guarantee and it will be hosted by Phil Gordon.

    The brains behind the Full Tilt Poker download are probably most excited by their Rush Poker events. You will have the chance to play in six total, including a $22 No Limit Holdem Rush rebuy event! If this appeals to the gambler in you, be sure to put Event 33 into your schedule so that you can have the chance to earn part of its $350k guaranteed prize pool.

    If you do not want to shell out over $200 to compete for a $1 million prize pool, choose Full Tilt over other money poker sites next week. The Main Event will take place on September 19th, featuring a $70+$5 buy-in with $1 million guaranteed! Carlos Mortensen is hosting this tournament, and it’s sure to be one of the most popular events of the series.

    To give low stakes players the chance to try a two day event, this download free poker site has scheduled a $216 NL Holdem 6 max tournament for Event 29. There will be antes from the start of the tournament and $600k minimum in the prize pool. Two day events can be extremely exciting, and no one will want to miss a tournament with such a good structure.

    As usual with FTOPS, you’re not playing just for the prize money. For starters, making it to a final table will net you a special MiniFTOPS jacket. If you place 1st in one of the events, you will also receive a silver MiniFTOPS jersey. The best US poker sites often offer leaderboards for their special events, and Full Tilt is no exception. If you finish first on the MiniFTOPS Leaderboard, you will receive a bunch of tournament buy-ins worth $10,000! With this package, you will be able to enter nearly every event in FTOPS XVIII.

    You probably already know that Full Tilt is one of the best US friendly poker sites available on the Internet today. With FTOPS and MiniFTOPS, though, they are working to be the best online poker site period, especially for multi-table tournaments. If you dream of winning a huge first place prize playing a game you love, you know what you have to do to get it. Good luck!